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s. 0. WRIGHT. Shirt.

.No. 240,296 Patented April 19,1881.

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Witnesses Inventor N. FEIFRS, FHoTO-LrmoQRAPNER. WASHINGTON. n. C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SIDNEY G. W'RIGHT, OF TROY, NEW YORK.

SHIRT.

SPECIFIGATON forming part of Letters Patent No. 240,296, dated April 19, 1881.

Application filedNovember12, 1880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, SIDNEY C. WRIGHT, of the city of Troy, county of Rensselaer, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shirts, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, with the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

.My invention relates to the novel method of making and connecting the bosom to the body of the shirt, which consists in inserting the edges of the parts of the body of the shirt adjoining the bosom between the edges of the outer and inner plies or faces of the bosom, such plies being wrong side out, and running the'edges together. in a continuous seam entirely around the bosom except at top, and in turningthe several parts right side out through the opening at the top of the bosom, and then stitching around the outer edges of the bosom. The object is to facilitate the joining of the bosom to the body of the shirt, and to produce uniform lines of stitching around the connecting-edges of the body and bosom, and, by means of such stitching, to form a strong beaded connection of the bosom to the shirt-body.

In the drawings, Figure 1 represents the body and bosom after having been run together wrong side out. Fig. 2 represents the same parts after having been run together and turned right side out and stitch ed down around the edge.

Bosoms have been usually stitched to the body of the shirt without cutting away the part of the body of the shirt beneath the bosom, or by stitching or seaming down the edge of the bosom to the connecting-sides of the body, and sometimes the outer edge of the bosom has been bound for the purpose of making a strong and durable connecting-seam;

but the insertion of the connecting-edges oi the body between the plies of the bosom and running the edges together wrong side out, and then turning the parts right side out through the opening at the top where the neck-band unites with the bosom, is, I believe, entirely new, and a valuable invention in shirts.

The following is a description of the method of connecting the edges of the body of the shirt between the plies of the bosom. I take the sides of the front of the shirt-body, cut in the usual manner, and insert the connectingedge of the side between the outer and inner edge of the plies of the bosom, such plies being wrong side out, and then run such edges together entirely around the bosom from the top of one side to the top of the opposite side, substantially as seen in Fig. 1 of the drawings, and then turn the parts right side out through the opening at the top where the neck-band joins the bosom. I then stitch through such edges one, two, or more rows of stitching entirely around the bosom, except at the top, thus making a complete, uniform, and handsomely-finished and serviceable shirt-front, as indicated by Fig. 2 of the drawings.

From the foregoing description it will be observed that the connecting-edges of the body of the shirt are secured to the bosom wrong side out, so that when the parts are right side out the connecting-seam is folded over, and when stitched down right side out the connecting-edges of-the shirt-body and of the'bosom are folded edges, making a strong and durable beaded connection, not requiring any extra stay-strips or other means for strengthening the connection between the body and bosom.

The advantages of manufacturing shirts after my mode are, that the material of the shirtbody is folded inwardly within the space of the materials composing the bosom, thereby presenting a compact and convenient article to handle, and afi'ording a readily-discerned course for the needle to follow, without the hinderance or incumbrance of loose material clinging to any part of the machine.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The method hereinbefore described of conmeeting the bosom to the body of a shirt, the same consisting in folding the material of the shirt-body within the materials composing the bosom-front, inserting the adjoining edges of the body of the shirt between the edges of the outer and inner plies of the bosom, such plies being wrong side out, then running a continuous seam around the bosom, except at the top, then turning the several parts right side out through the opening at the top of the bosom, ed to be turnedright side out through the open- I0 and finally stitching around the outer edges in g at the top, substantially as and for the purof the bosom, substantially as set forth. poses herein described.

2. Theimproved shirt hereinbefore described, In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my having the connecting-sides of the front inserthand this 20th day of September, 1880. ed between the edges of the plies of the bosom, S. 0. WRIGHT. such pieces being Wrong side out, and run or stitched entirely around from the top of one side to the top of the opposite side, and adapt- Witnesses:

WM. H. HOLLISTER, J12, N. DAVENPORT. 

